Georg Simmel, Philosophie de la religion

La Philosophie du remède

scruple then every prescription where this occurs has a serious error, and so, in a sense, invalidates Brownrigg's treatment. A drachm (3)=60 grains, whilst a scruple (3)=only 20 grains-an error of 1:3. Of less importance is to have equated the apothecary ounce (3) with that of the avoirdupois (oz) as there is a difference of 42.5 grains between them. It would thus seem that the editors have an...

The Metropolis and Mental Life by Georg Simmel

The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life. The fight with nature which primitive man has to wage for his bodily existence attains in this modern form its latest transformation. The eight...

Speculating the Subject of Money: Georg Simmel on Human Value

This article initiates an inquiry into the sources and frameworks of value used to denote human subjects in modernity. In particular, I consider the conflation of monetary, legal, and theological registers employed to demarcate human worth. Drawing on Simmel’s speculative genealogy of the money equivalent of human values, I consider the spectrum of ascriptions from specifically quantified to in...

Etude sur la digestion pancratique de la caseine pour la production de la toxine tetanique

Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy La société canadienne de philosophie continentale

Martine Béland, Université de Montréal Du combat contre un essayiste à la construction du philosophe Nietzsche Cette communication présente les thèses soutenant un projet de recherche en cours sur la première réception germanophone de la pensée nietzschéenne (1872-1889). Elle prend comme fil conducteur trois suggestions faites par Georg Brandes. L‘auteur de la première étude d‘envergure sur Nie...